Netanyahu designing new Jerusalem borders
The Greater Jerusalem bill and the Jerusalem proposal by Minister Zeev Elkin risk angering the Trump administration while laboring on its peace initiative.
![USA-TRUMP/ISRAEL Road signs are seen in front of the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim in the occupied West Bank, near Jerusalem January 17, 2017. Picture taken January 17, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Awad - RC1AE87475A0](/sites/default/files/styles/article_hero_medium/public/almpics/2017/10-1/RTSW9M4.jpg/RTSW9M4.jpg?h=a5ae579a&itok=60SV7Dm_)
On Oct. 29, the Ministerial Committee for Legislation was supposed to approve a new bill. The bill would have mandated that numerous West Bank settlements — including those of the Etzion Bloc (Efrat and others), Givat Zeev and Maale Adumim —– would be annexed to Jerusalem.